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The Daily F Bomb, Friday 5/23/13

Interrogatories

If you were allowed, on your tax forms, to direct where you wanted your tax money to go, where would you spend it? In what amounts?

Do you feel comfortable eating alone at a restaurant or going to movies or other shows alone?

Is there any chore/job/action that always makes you kick into high procrastination mode? What is it?

Do you like escargot? (It’s National Escargot Day.)

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On This Day

In 1629, the English Parliament passed the so-called Act of Toleration to protect those of the Protestant faith, but deliberately excluding Catholics.

In 1883, the long-under-construction Brooklyn Bridge opened to traffic.

In 1895, Oscar Wilde was convicted of “gross indecency” (a crime that had no written definition because to define such a thing offended Victorian morals) and was sentenced to 2 years of hard labor.

In 1930, aviator Amy Johnson became the first woman to fly solo from England to Australia.

In 1935, the first Major League baseball night game was played in Cincinnati (the Reds v. the Phillies, the Reds won).

In 1956, the first, and unfortunately not last, Eurovision Song Contest was held in Switzerland, giving aid and succor to purveyors of cheesy pop music worldwide.

In 1976, in a blind tasting even later called the Judgement of Paris, California wines beat out the French wines, finally giving them the respect they had been lacking.

In 1977, the original Star Wars (none of that New Hope bullcrap, please) premiered.

In 2006, Enron scofflaws Ken Lay and Jeffrey Skilling were convicted of conspiracy and fraud.

Born on This Day

1494 – Jacopo Pontormo, Italian painter (d. 1557)

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1544 – William Gilbert, English astronomer and philosopher (d. 1603)

1619 – Philips Wouwerman, Dutch Baroque era painter (d. 1668)

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1728 – Jean-Baptiste Pillement, French Rococo painter (d. 1808)

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1816 – Emanuel Leutze, German painter (d. 1868)

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1819 – Queen Victoria of the United Kingdom (d. 1901)

1830 – Alexei Savrasov, Russian painter (d. 1897)

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1834 – Peter Baumgartner, German painter (d. 1911)

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1841 – Charles Napier Hemy, British artist (d. 1917)

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1845 – Madeleine Lemaire, French painter (d. 1928)

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1849 – Baldomero Giménez, Spanish painter (d. 1902)

1850 – Sir Ernest Waterlow, English painter (d. 1919)

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1869 – Albert André, French painter (d. 1954)

1882 – Creighton Hale, Irish silent film actor (d. 1965)

1895 – Marcel Janco, Israeli artist (d. 1984)

1899 – Henri Michaux, French poet (d. 1984)

1932 – Graham Arnold, British painter

1934 – Jane Byrne, Americian politician, 50th Mayor of Chicago

1938 – Tommy Chong, Canadian actor and comedian

1941 – Bob Dylan, American singer-songwriter

1941 – George Lakoff, American linguist and activist

1944 – Patti LaBelle, American singer-songwriter, actress, and author (Labelle)

1945 – Terry Callier, American singer-songwriter guitarist (d. 2012)

1945 – Priscilla Presley, American actress and businesswoman

1947 – Waddy Wachtel, American composer, musician, bandleader, and producer

1950 – Terry Scott Taylor, American singer-songwriter, musician, and producer (Daniel Amos, Swirling Eddies, and Lost Dogs)

1955 – Rosanne Cash, American singer-songwriter, guitarist, and author

1960 – Guy Fletcher, English musician and producer (Dire Straits and The Notting Hillbillies)

1967 – Dana Ashbrook, American actor

1967 – Steven Shane McDonald, American bassist and actor (Redd Kross)

1969 – Rich Robinson, American guitarist and songwriter (The Black Crowes)

2007 – Maru (cat), Japanese cat and internet celebrity

Died on This Day

1543 – Nicolaus Copernicus, Polish astronomer (b. 1473)

1725 – Jonathan Wild, English criminal (b. 1682)

1752 – Charles Parrocel, French painter (b. 1688)

1825 – Horace Hone, English miniature painter (b. 1754)

1831 – James Peale, US still life painter (brother of Charles Willson Peale who is the artist who had all those artist kids named after famous artists) (b. 1749)

1872 – Julius Schnorr von Carolsfeld, German painter (b. 1794)

1879 – William Lloyd Garrison, American abolitionist and publisher (b. 1805)

1881 – Samuel Palmer, English painter (b. 1805)

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1889 – Hermann Kauffmann, German painter (b. 1808)

1959 – John Foster Dulles, American politician, 52nd United States Secretary of State (b. 1888)

1963 – Elmore James, American singer-songwriter, guitarist, and bandleader (b. 1918)

1972 – Asta Nielsen, Danish silent film star (b. 1881)

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1974 – Duke Ellington, American composer, pianist, and bandleader (b. 1899)

1991 – Gene Clark, American singer-songwriter and musician (The Byrds and Dillard & Clark) (b. 1944)

1995 – Harold Wilson, English politician, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (b. 1916)

1998 – Lucio Muñoz, Spanish abstract painter (b. 1929)

2008 – Dick Martin, American comedian (b. 1922)

2008 – Jimmy McGriff, American jazz musician and bandleader (b. 1936)

2009 – Jay Bennett, American singer-songwriter, musician, and producer (Wilco) (b. 1963)

Today is

Brother’s Day

National Escargot Day

Asparagus Day

National Scavenger Hunt Day

International Tiara Day

National Wig Out Day

Heat Awareness Day


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35 comments

  1. plf515

    If you were allowed, on your tax forms, to direct where you wanted your tax money to go, where would you spend it? In what amounts?

    To do this sensibly, I’d have to go over the US Budget, then think about how it’s wrong, then figure percentages. Too much work.

    Do you feel comfortable eating alone at a restaurant or going to movies or other shows alone?

    Yes. I do it all the time.



    Is there any chore/job/action that always makes you kick into high procrastination mode? What is it?

    I was going to procrastinate but I put it off



    Do you like escargot? (It’s National Escargot Day.)

    They are OK. The texture is interesting. Given how they are usually served (garlic butter), the taste is drowned in that of garlic and butter. And garlic and butter taste GOOD!

  2. Gee

    Big rain last night (w/lightning & thunder); chilly and windy today and tomorrow.

    If you were allowed, on your tax forms, to direct where you wanted your tax money to go, where would you spend it? In what amounts?

    Do you feel comfortable eating alone at a restaurant or going to movies or other shows alone?

    Is there any chore/job/action that always makes you kick into high procrastination mode? What is it?

    Do you like escargot? (It’s National Escargot Day.)

    In what amounts?  Pie chart?  😉  First things to pop into my head are education and infrastructure.  And that was before I heard about the bridge in Washington.

    Loudoun Wainwright has a good song about eating alone in restaurants.  I feel comfortable doing it.

    Procrastination-starting actions:  All of them.

    I have never had escargot.  I’m not unwilling to try it, but it hasn’t come my way.

    When I was a kid, I had an album by Bill Dana (“My name… Jose Jimenez…”), and one of the bits was of him giving advice on etiquette.

    “Sir, I’m giving a dinner party, and I wondered what wine I should serve with escargot, keeping in mind that escargot are snails?”

    “I realize that escargot are snails.  That’s why I’m not coming to your house for dinner.”

  3. anotherdemocrat

    If you were allowed, on your tax forms, to direct where you wanted your tax money to go, where would you spend it? In what amounts? Libraries, schools, police & firefighters. All public employees salaries — now this is complicated, but bear with me — calculate 10% pay raise for each salary, take that dollar amount & flip it so that the people at the bottom of the scale get a raise of 10% of the salary of the people at the top of the scale. (The people who work the hardest, who do the front line, work behind the counter, answer the phones, etc get the most money & the people who don’t have to interact with the public & get to spend all their times in meetings & webinars get what they deserve — the very least)

    Do you feel comfortable eating alone at a restaurant or going to movies or other shows alone? If I didn’t, I’d never go anywhere. I always have a book with me.

    Is there any chore/job/action that always makes you kick into high procrastination mode? What is it? Money. I avoid all things money-connected. It just makes me too anxious.

    Do you like escargot? (It’s National Escargot Day.) I’m a vegetarian, so no. But back when I did eat animal flesh, I did.

  4. Gee

    “There’s a stereotype that blk pple R lazy.I don’t know if that’s true,but I know white pple went all the way to Afr to get out of doing wk”

    – DéliceMugabo

  5. Gee

    I only heard of this contest a few years ago.  I wonder if any of the winning songs has ever seen the light of day in this country?  I’ll have to look that up.

  6. Gee

    1960 – Guy Fletcher, English musician and producer (Dire Straits and The Notting Hillbillies)

    I think Guy Fletcher has played with Roxy, too, at least on tour.

  8. Jk2003

    If you were allowed, on your tax forms, to direct where you wanted your tax money to go, where would you spend it? In what amounts?

    Do you feel comfortable eating alone at a restaurant or going to movies or other shows alone?

    Is there any chore/job/action that always makes you kick into high procrastination mode? What is it?

    Do you like escargot? (It’s National Escargot Day.)

    Taxes:  education and Medicare for all.

    Eating alone:  yes, I love having alone time

    Procrastination:  emptying the dishwasher, luckily I don’t have one (yet) in the new house

    Escargot:  never tried, the texture seems iffy for me, I can’t chew mushrooms

  10. Its the Supreme Court Stupid

    If you were allowed, on your tax forms, to direct where you wanted your tax money to go, where would you spend it? In what amounts?  To foreign affairs and foreign aid, since so many other people would NOT direct their monies to those vital areas.

    Do you feel comfortable eating alone at a restaurant or going to movies or other shows alone? For a movie or a show, never a problem.  Eating alone in a restaurant used to be a slight issue, but I long ago got over that.

    Is there any chore/job/action that always makes you kick into high procrastination mode? What is it?

    Do you like escargot? (It’s National Escargot Day.)

    Yes, and I always eat them at a snail’s pace.

  11. slksfca

    But I love the garlic butter, great for dipping bread in.

    I don’t care for eating out alone, either, but I do it sometimes. And movies are best enjoyed at home, I think. It’s fun to watch something with a friend, but the theater experience has sadly degraded. Over-amplified sound, and rude patrons. At home is better.

    And no, I’m not especially grumpy today, thank you. ;-p

  12. michelewln

    If you were allowed, on your tax forms, to direct where you wanted your tax money to go, where would you spend it? In what amounts? Hotlines and shelters for LBGT youths in whatever amount it takes to keep them safe from bullying.

    Do you feel comfortable eating alone at a restaurant or going to movies or other shows alone? No problem do it all the time.

    Is there any chore/job/action that always makes you kick into high procrastination mode? What is it? Ironing

    Do you like escargot? (It’s National Escargot Day.) Haven’t tried them and not likely too. Allergic to too many shellfish to risk it.

  13. bubbanomics

    If you were allowed, on your tax forms, to direct where you wanted your tax money to go, where would you spend it? In what amounts?

    I reckon I pay those yutzes in DC, Sacramento, and downtown LA to make those decisions, so I’d rather not backseat-drive.

    Do you feel comfortable eating alone at a restaurant or going to movies or other shows alone?

    Yep. no problemo.

    Is there any chore/job/action that always makes you kick into high procrastination mode? What is it?

    lots of ’em.  filing stuff.  grading papers. writing status reports.

    Do you like escargot? (It’s National Escargot Day.)

    not particularly.

  14. Avilyn

    Q&A:

    If you were allowed, on your tax forms, to direct where you wanted your tax money to go, where would you spend it? In what amounts?  Social Safety Net programs, Education, VA Benefits, Arts, assistance for victims of domestic violence & LGBT bullying.  

    Do you feel comfortable eating alone at a restaurant or going to movies or other shows alone?  No problem eating alone at a restaurant, I just take a book with me.  I don’t normally go to movies and shows, but I would be OK going alone.

    Is there any chore/job/action that always makes you kick into high procrastination mode? What is it?  Yes.  All of it.

    Do you like escargot? (It’s National Escargot Day.) Haven’t and won’t try them.

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